Storyman

Sugar Hill released Storyman on 24 June 2016, and Bush held the release show at City Winery in Nashville on 23 July. He wrote Carcinoma Blues with Guy Clark. Hand Mics Killed Country Music features Emmylou Harris, who co-wrote it with him, and he wrote Transcendental Meditation Blues with his longtime collaborator Jeff Black.

The band on the record was Bush on vocals, guitar, mandolin and fiddle, Stephen Mougin on vocals and guitar, Todd Parks on electric bass, Scott Vestal on banjo and Chris Brown on drums.